wyszukanych pozycji: 107
Flesh Mapping: Cartography of Struggle, Renewal and Hope in Education
ISBN: 9781433120084 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. What can be learned from a story woven out of fragmented moments of joy, pain, horror, and blissful awareness? Flesh Mapping is an attempt to create a pedagogy of shared narrative, place, and politics; to narratively map the injuries of the material, emotional, and spiritual impact of poverty, displacement, hunger and war on an individual life. The book is an invitation to instructors in education, anthropology, women s studies, and labor studies to re-imagine education as the praxis for liberation, renewal, and hope. It serves as a process of naming the injuries inflicted on real...
What can be learned from a story woven out of fragmented moments of joy, pain, horror, and blissful awareness? Flesh Mapping is an attempt to c...
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205,76 zł |
International Education in Global Times: Engaging the Pedagogic
ISBN: 9781433114762 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book illuminates the changing landscape and expediency of international education in global times. Within this larger picture, the book focuses on the educational effects of international encounters, experiences and lessons - the complex processes of learning and subject formation in play during and after one's international/intercultural experience. These complex processes, hinged on past and present self-other relations, are illustrated by employing the parable of The Elephant and the Blind Men. In contrast to more narrow, developmentalist conceptions of intercultural learning, Paul...
This book illuminates the changing landscape and expediency of international education in global times. Within this larger picture, the book focuses o...
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205,76 zł |
Reading the World, the Globe, and the Cosmos: Approaches to Teaching Literature for the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9781433121784 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book won the 2014 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award. The purpose of this book is restore the centrality of pedagogy in governing the ways literary texts are received, experienced, and interpreted by students in the classroom. Utilizing a method of pedagogical criticism, it provides an account of core approaches to teaching literature that have emerged across history and the conceptual values informing these approaches. More importantly, Reading the World discusses how these values have been shaped by broader global forces and key...
This book won the 2014 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award. The purpose of this book is restore the centr...
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824,03 zł |
Education, Science and Knowledge Capitalism
ISBN: 9781433120572 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 303 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. We live in the age of global science but not, primarily, in the sense of universal knowledge that has characterized the liberal metanarrative of free science and the free society since its early development in the Enlightenment. Today, an economic logic links science to national economic policy, while globalized multinational science dominates an environment where quality assurance replaces truth as the new regulative ideal. This book examines the nature of educational and science-based capitalism in its cybernetic, knowledge, algorithmic and bioinformational forms before turning to the...
We live in the age of global science but not, primarily, in the sense of universal knowledge that has characterized the liberal metanarrative of free ...
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243,35 zł |
New Times: Making Sense of Critical/Cultural Theory in a Digital Age
ISBN: 9781433112782 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The eighteen original essays in this collection, woven together, make a central claim: as a consequence of the new driving logics of globalization, transnationalism, and the digital age, all late-modern institutions and forms of association and affiliation are coalescing under the banner of new identities. These logics have unsettled the processes of the social integration of modern subjects into late-modern institutions. The modern subject is being remade and reproduced in a context in which the relations between government, society, the individual, and market forces have undergone profound...
The eighteen original essays in this collection, woven together, make a central claim: as a consequence of the new driving logics of globalization, tr...
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804,22 zł |
Citizenship and Citizenship Education in a Global Age: Politics, Policies, and Practices in China
ISBN: 9781433108020 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book examines issues of citizenship, citizenship education, and social change in China, exploring the complexity of interactions among global forces, the nation-state, local governments, schools, and individuals including students in selecting and identifying with elements of citizenship and citizenship education in a multileveled polity. It also provides a clear, detailed guide to studies on China, discussing the country s responses to global challenges and social transitions for over a century from its military defeats by foreign powers in the 1840s to its rise as a world power in the...
This book examines issues of citizenship, citizenship education, and social change in China, exploring the complexity of interactions among global for...
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750,88 zł |
Modernization or Cultural Imperialism: A Critical Reading of Taiwan's National Scholarship Program for Overseas Study
ISBN: 9781433120282 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book focuses on the development of Taiwan s long-standing National Scholarship Program for Overseas Study between 1955 and 2000. The National Scholarship Program can be seen as Taiwan s governmental pursuit of strategic modernization for national and social development. Strategic modernization does not necessarily imply a linear, progressive, and technological modernity; but should be viewed as an adjustable, flexible, and sustainable effort that transforms and assists a nation, like Taiwan, to adapt itself within its constrained and changing post-colonial condition. This view of...
This book focuses on the development of Taiwan s long-standing National Scholarship Program for Overseas Study between 1955 and 2000. The National Sch...
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212,61 zł |
Brewing Identities: Globalisation, Guinness and the Production of Irishness
ISBN: 9781433118906 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. While Guinness is a global product, it still contains references to Ireland and it occupies a particular place in imaginings of Irishness. Brewing Identities is unique in that, while it focuses on the (re)production of a specific kind of ethno-national identity Irishness it is simultaneously transnational in scope, as the author maps the trails of products, people and symbolic constructs through a globalised world. In pubs from Dublin to London to New York, the reader is taken on a multi-sited ethnography, where stories unfold through observation, interview, and conversation with...
While Guinness is a global product, it still contains references to Ireland and it occupies a particular place in imaginings of Irishness. Brewing ...
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231,91 zł |
Shifting Tides in Global Higher Education: Agency, Autonomy, and Governance in the Global Network- With a Foreword by Stanley Ikenberry
ISBN: 9781433114670 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The increasing connection among higher education institutions worldwide is well documented. What is less understood is how this connectivity is enacted and manifested on specific levels of the global education network. This book details the planning process of a multi-institutional program in engineering between institutions in the US and Singapore as they develop a new model of collaboration. Contrary to what neoliberal or center-to-periphery narratives of globalization might lead us to expect, strong national and local governments, culture, and social relationships all play determining...
The increasing connection among higher education institutions worldwide is well documented. What is less understood is how this connectivity is enacte...
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172,22 zł |
Bakhtinian Pedagogy: Opportunities and Challenges for Research, Policy and Practice in Education Across the Globe
ISBN: 9781433113543 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This collection of essays brings Bakhtinian ideas into dialogue with educational practice across cultural and pedagogical boundaries. These encounters offer fresh perspectives on contemporary issues in education, and consider pedagogical responses that are framed within a dialogic imperative. The book also pioneers an important discussion about the place of the Bakhtin Circle in educational philosophy today. Drawing on the historical and contemporary scholarship that has already taken place in education to date, the book emphasizes the living nature of language as intentional acts that take...
This collection of essays brings Bakhtinian ideas into dialogue with educational practice across cultural and pedagogical boundaries. These encounters...
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804,22 zł |
Unsettling the Gap: Race, Politics and Indigenous Education
ISBN: 9781433159145 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Unsettling the Gap: Race, Politics and Indigenous Education takes the global problem of 'Indigenous educational disadvantage' that have culminated in the Australian context in the 'Closing the Gap' policy.
Unsettling the Gap: Race, Politics and Indigenous Education takes the global problem of 'Indigenous educational disadvantage' that have culminated in ...
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227,35 zł |
School Food Politics: The Complex Ecology of Hunger and Feeding in Schools Around the World- With a Foreword by Chef Ann Cooper
ISBN: 9781433113086 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2012.
The essays in School Food Politics explore the intersections of food and politics on all six of the inhabited continents of the world. Including electoral fights over universally free school meals in Korea, nutritional reforms to school dinners in England and canteens in Australia, teachers and doctors work on school feeding in Argentina, and more, the volume provides key illustrations of the many contexts that have witnessed intense struggles defining which children will... This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2012.
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750,88 zł |
The World's Highest-Scoring Students: How Their Nations Led Them to Excellence
ISBN: 9781433151439 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The World's Highest-Scoring Students focuses on how various countries transformed their school systems into the world's leading systems of education.
The World's Highest-Scoring Students focuses on how various countries transformed their school systems into the world's leading systems of education.
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227,35 zł |
Conceptions of Islamic Education: Pedagogical Framings
ISBN: 9781433112034 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Conceptions of Islamic Education: Pedagogical Framings argues that madaris (Muslim schools) cannot exclusively be held responsible for the cultivation of extremism. Islamic education can most appropriately be framed according to three interrelated concepts: tarbiyyah (rearing or nurturing), ta lim (learning/ instruction), and ta dib (good action). These three phenomena are explored along the lines of a minimalist-maximalist continuum that guides practices and institutions differently. A minimalist understanding of Islamic education does not necessarily...
Conceptions of Islamic Education: Pedagogical Framings argues that madaris (Muslim schools) cannot exclusively be held responsible for t...
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185,68 zł |
Occupy Education: Living and Learning Sustainability
ISBN: 9781433119675 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 331 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Occupy Education is motivated by the sustainability crisis and energized by the drive for social justice that inspired the Occupy movement. Situated within the struggle for sustainability taking place amid looming resource shortages, climate change, economic instability, and ecological breakdown, the book is a timely contribution to community education and action. It opens a whole realm of integrated theory to educators and sustainability activists and demonstrates how that theory can be moved into practice. Occupy Education is an excellent text for courses in sustainability...
Occupy Education is motivated by the sustainability crisis and energized by the drive for social justice that inspired the Occupy movement. Sit...
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804,22 zł |
Exploring Globalization Opportunities and Challenges in Social Studies: Effective Instructional Approaches
ISBN: 9781433121296 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book on global issues, trends, and practices is intended to serve primarily as an instructional and learning resource in social studies methods courses for preservice teachers. In addition, it is an effective social studies and global education resource for college faculty, graduate students, inservice educators, and other professionals because it has divergent, practical, and relevant ideas. Teaching global education is challenging. It requires an understanding of globalization and how it affects policies, reforms, and education. Therefore, this book explores real global issues in the...
This book on global issues, trends, and practices is intended to serve primarily as an instructional and learning resource in social studies methods c...
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843,84 zł |
The Philosophy of Open Learning: Peer Learning and the Intellectual Commons
ISBN: 9781433128585 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. In this book, internationally recognized scholars provide in-depth insight into the emerging field of open education. The Philosophy of Open Learning provides an overview of the current debates and introduces the reader to the overall discourse on open education. The broad range of topics, including MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and OERs (Open Educational Resources) is aimed at demonstrating that open education has emerged as a new principle for organizing higher education. Based on this idea, the book covers various issues that are backed up by thorough philosophical reflections...
In this book, internationally recognized scholars provide in-depth insight into the emerging field of open education. The Philosophy of Open Learni...
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517,93 zł |
China's New 21st-Century Realities: Social Equity in a Time of Change
ISBN: 9781433116179 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. China s New 21st-Century Realities: Social Equity in a Time of Change examines the new social justice realities in China. Often when people think of China they think of a very rigid, patriarchal society where oppression is the order of the day. However, this book aims to debunk some of those preconceived notions by addressing issues such as single men living in rural China, professional women in politics, and the baggage that comes with being considered an outsider. The book looks at China through a critical social justice prism that has seldom been used before. Contributors also take...
China s New 21st-Century Realities: Social Equity in a Time of Change examines the new social justice realities in China. Often when people thi...
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791,01 zł |
Be the Change: Teacher, Activist, Global Citizen
ISBN: 9781433107702 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book examines the ways young people engage in action, dialogue, and activism, and how they become global citizens. The essays in the book illustrate how young people with deep convictions on how to change the world make a difference in their communities. The community becomes the classroom, and their activism the true lesson. Possible -utopias- are realized with every effort to engage in activism, to be an advocate for both oneself and others, and with each critical engagement with oppression. These young activists are the unsung heroes and theirs are the victories in current educational...
This book examines the ways young people engage in action, dialogue, and activism, and how they become global citizens. The essays in the book illustr...
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791,01 zł |
Education, Science and Knowledge Capitalism: Creativity and the Promise of Openness
ISBN: 9781433120589 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 303 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. We live in the age of global science but not, primarily, in the sense of universal knowledge that has characterized the liberal metanarrative of free science and the free society since its early development in the Enlightenment. Today, an economic logic links science to national economic policy, while globalized multinational science dominates an environment where quality assurance replaces truth as the new regulative ideal. This book examines the nature of educational and science-based capitalism in its cybernetic, knowledge, algorithmic and bioinformational forms before turning to the...
We live in the age of global science but not, primarily, in the sense of universal knowledge that has characterized the liberal metanarrative of free ...
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865,95 zł |